A Whispering Pines firefighter has died after falling ill on the job on Christmas Day. Lt. Reid Key was assisting with efforts to extinguish a fire in Carthage when he began complaining of a headache. The 31-year-old was taken to FirstHealth Regional Moore Hospital for treatment, according to Chief Rich Lambdin of the Whispering Pines Fire Department.
- PUB DATE: 12/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: The Pilot

The chief of a Southern Indiana fire department was arrested Tuesday and charged with a felony after officials said he shoved a police officer and yelled profanities at him at a fire scene. Christopher Herzog, 51, the chief of the Cannelton Fire Department, was taken into custody by Indiana State Police after an investigation was requested by the Cannelton Police Department, according to a news release.
- PUB DATE: 12/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Courier Journal

By incredible odds, off-duty Providence Fire Lt. Robert McCollough happened to be driving along Hawkins Street around noon Thursday when he saw smoke emanating from a two-story house at 342 Hawkins St. McCollough pulled over and parked the AAA tow truck he drives as a second job. "Two men were on the sidewalk, screaming to someone inside.
- PUB DATE: 12/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Providence Journal

The family of a woman who died after going without oxygen for 17 minutes filed a lawsuit against a call center and first responders. Laurelyn Wagner-Pitts, 60, went into cardiac arrest July 30; she died in August after her family decided to take her off a ventilator. Her husband, Randy Pitts, called 911 after Wagner-Pitts began to make “funny noises and had a look on her face,” reported the Joliet Patch.
- PUB DATE: 12/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: EMS1

A City of Miami firefighter thanked his colleagues at Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, Thursday, for saving his son’s life, just before Christmas. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to a house fire on Southwest 112th Avenue, last Friday, and found Anthony Villa lying on the ground unconscious. “He happened to be in cardiac arrest,” Miami Fire Rescue Chief Maurice Kemp said, “which, as you know, it doesn’t get any worse than that.
- PUB DATE: 12/30/2016 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSVN.com